cwsox Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 what is with the Titanic avatar? I have always been fascinated by the Titanic - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zach23 Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 what is with the Titanic avatar? I have always been fascinated by the Titanic - Metaphor for the Sox season? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1549 Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 When I was younger I used to be obsessed with the Titanic, then I saw the movie and stopped reading into it. The avatar actually looks like the cover of the book "A Night to Remember" written by some author with the last name 'Lord'. Good book, I enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CubKilla Posted June 7, 2003 Share Posted June 7, 2003 The avatar actually looks like the cover of the book "A Night to Remember" written by some author with the last name 'Lord'. Good book, I enjoyed it. Walter Lord. I'm an authority on the Titanic. I took it as such..... a symbol of our season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwsox Posted June 7, 2003 Author Share Posted June 7, 2003 Walter Lord. I'm an authority on the Titanic. oh? we then have that in common. I still have my very first copy of A Night to Remember, a bantam paperbook, 40¢. My grandson in pretty good on it too. He is working on memorzing every deck - we are on the orlop deck now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CubKilla Posted June 7, 2003 Share Posted June 7, 2003 oh? we then have that in common. I still have my very first copy of A Night to Remember, a bantam paperbook, 40¢. My grandson in pretty good on it too. He is working on memorzing every deck - we are on the orlop deck now. I have a hard cover copy of ANtR from the 60's that my uncle gave to me that has alot of nice pictures from the ship. I have a replica of the Titanic from the Danbury Mint on my living room coffee table and a chunk of coal retrieved from the Titanic's debris field on the ocean floor. There was a Titanic Exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry a few years back that was spectacular. If you're ever in Las Vegas, go to the Rio. They have a permanent exhibit of artifacts collected from the Titanic and the debris field on display there similar to what the MoSaI had. One of the sobering parts of the exhibit at the MoSaI was, at the beginning of the tour, you were given a "boarding pass" with a name printed on it. At the end of the tour, there was a listing of the deceased and saved. You looked up the name of the person you had on the boarding pass and this was supposed to let you know whether you would have "lived or died" if you boarded the Titanic. I died Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted June 7, 2003 Share Posted June 7, 2003 It started when I figured if JR owned the Titanic, he would have sat in the lifeboat and wondered if he should fire the captain. Then I saw the Titanic listing and figured that's out season. I've read a few interesting articles on human behavior and how it manifested itself on the Titanic. Very interesting. I've always wondered if I would have donned women's clothes and snuck into a lifeboat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwsox Posted June 7, 2003 Author Share Posted June 7, 2003 at the Museum of Science and Industry exhibit, I lived, I was a member of the crew who survived - I went the best day, a holiday weekend and I got there just at the peak of the crowds so it thinned out and I actually spent 4 hours just taking in every piece there - there is a show in Detroit now still I think which I must get the grandson to - I have a shelf full of books and charts and maps and diagrams - thanks for the tips about Las Vegas! From the Chicago exhibit I bought a piece of genuine Titanic coal just to have something that was from the ship - and I keep it tucked away here at home. When my grandson comes over, he is the only person who knows where it is (or even that I ahve it) and he gets it out very ceremoniously and we look at with reverence - many the times we sit with the books and the passenger list and discuss what happened and how it could have - the story of human what, arrogance, folly, presumption, greed - and we ponder what we would have done had we been there - I wish I had know you at the time of the Titanic exhibit, it would have been good to share that with someone - the Eastman exhibit that went with it, my mother's mothers family are Bohemians and of course it was mostly Bohemians who worked at Western Electric and it was last minute decision of my aunts not to go - one of their closest friends died on it and my mother had her ring (recovered with her body) and now my sister does - of course my aunts and grandmother knew a lot of victims - when you walk through the Bohemian national cemetary (Foster and Pulaski) you keep seeing the same year of death on so many grave stones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwsox Posted June 7, 2003 Author Share Posted June 7, 2003 It started when I figured if JR owned the Titanic, he would have sat in the lifeboat and wondered if he should fire the captain. Then I saw the Titanic listing and figured that's out season. I've read a few interesting articles on human behavior and how it manifested itself on the Titanic. Very interesting. I've always wondered if I would have donned women's clothes and snuck into a lifeboat. we all wonder what we would ahve done - imagine what it was like to be utterly secure and then realize you will probably die within the hour in the cold north Atlantic - beig clergy, I suppose that I would ended up with those on the Titanic, none of them survived, they stayed and led prayers with the doomed until the first time the bow shot up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted June 7, 2003 Share Posted June 7, 2003 My personality would have me helping people onto boats and trying to keep everyone calm. At some point, when all the boats are loaded, and there are more people than spaces and nothing around to be fashioned into a life raft, then things become interesting. When coming face to face with the fact that within 30 minutes of jumping into that water, possibly sooner, I will be dead, I wonder what I really would do. I teach wilderness survival techniques to young people and occassionally situations come up in the news that we talk about. Recently a guy amputated his lower arm to release himself from a boulder that had him pinned for a couple of days. That decision seems easy compared to giving up the last seat in the last life boat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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